SIDRA Director's Appointment to the International Advisory Board of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes

18 MaySIDRA Director's Appointment to the International Advisory Board of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes


SIDRA Director Professor Nadja Alexander

SIDRA is pleased to announce that SIDRA Director Professor Nadja Alexander has been appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes.  The current Ombudsman is Giuseppe De Palo, and more information on the Office of the Ombudsman can be found here: https://fpombudsman.org/.
 
The Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes is seeking to increase its capacity for mediation services which will allow staff of the five UN organizations to raise concerns and issues informally to a confidential, independent body (the Office of the Ombudsman) and have these issues addressed in a faster, less intrusive way than a formal investigation process.  To this end, the Office of the Ombudsman has developed a Global Mediation Panel consisting of external mediators approved by the Office of the Ombudsman who will mediate disputes involving the five UN organizations.  The Office of the Ombudsman's International Advisory Board oversees the Global Mediation Panel.